Rod Rosenstein joins Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions in denying ALL knowledge of secret DOJ subpoenas sent to Microsoft and Apple for Congress members' data
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The Justice Department sent a secret subpoena to Apple on February 6, 2018 for 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses
- Trump and his administration were infuriated after detailed conversations between his aides and the Russian ambassador to the U.S. were leaked
- The Justice Department began probing the sources of the embarrassing leaks
- The subpoenas included requests for data from accounts for Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell
- Jeff Sessions served as Attorney General at the time the administration started probing the leaks, and Rod Rosenstein served as his deputy attorney general
- Neither Sessions nor Rosenstein knew about the subpoena, a source close to them told the Wall Street Journal on Friday
- Sessions' successor William Barr ordered the probe continue well into 2020
- Barr told Politico he also was 'not aware of any congressman's records being sought in a leak case' while he was attorney general
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-06-13 |